This is why ALL liberals *should* oppose dragnet surveillance

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39. You're assuming that they wanted to know but just made some mistakes.

It's hard to believe if a government is taking security seriously how after 52 warnings, they were 'shocked' when what they were warned about happened. Anyone in any job who failed so tragically would have been not only been fired, but prosecuted.

Or, we can accept the 'incompetence' argument which means that all this surveillance does NOT, as they claim, keep us safe.

Surveillance of suspects, who become suspects because there are reasons, is not what people are objecting to. Surveillance of an entire population is dangerous and a threat to democracy, the very thing they claim to be protecting.

We do not need them to get better at spying on the entire population, we need to get better at spying on people who are known to be likely to commit crimes, or who have done so or who are associating with those who have done so. The waste of time and money surveilling people ordering pizzas is a threat to our security, on every level.

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how this 'program' has or can protect us.

'They hate us for our freedoms'. Maybe if we give them all up voluntarily they won't hate us anymore!